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January 15, 2017 Week: 03 \ Day: 15
86004 Today: H 43° \ L 31°
Average Sky Cover: 98%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts:
13mph Visibility: 10 mi
January Averages:
43°\17°
January Records:
H: 66° (1971) L: -30
(1937)
Record High: 65°[1943]
Record Low: -12°[1937]
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❆❆Quote of the Day❆❆
Frederick Douglass
Without a struggle, there can be no progress.
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❆❆Observances Today❆❆
Alpha Kappa Alpha Day
Humanitarian Day (Martin
Luther King Jr.'s Birthday. Started in 2009
by a committee for King Days of Respect. Different than World Humanitarian Day
in August.)
National Sanctity of Human Life Day (or
Pro-Life Day) Link
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❆❆Observances This Week❆❆
11-18
Cuckoo Dancing Week
National Soccer Coaches of America Week
15-21
Hunt For Happiness Week
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❆❆Today’s Significant US Historical Events❆❆
◈ Today’s Significant
International Historical Events
◈ 1535 Henry VIII declares
himself head of the Church in England
◈ 1559 Elizabeth I crowned
Queen of England in Westminster Abbey
1782 Robert Morris, the Superintendent of Finance,
recommends to U.S. Congress the establishment of decimal coinage and a national
mint
◈ 1797 1st top hat worn (John
Etherington of London)
1831 1st US-built locomotive to pull a passenger
train makes 1st run
1847 1st Swedish magazine in US, Skandinavia,
published in NYC
1861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis
1863 1st US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper,
Boston Morning Journal
1870 Donkey first used as symbol of Democratic
Party, in Harper's Weekly
◈ 1876 "Die Afrikaanse
Patriot", the first newspaper in Afrikaans, is published in Paarl
1882 1st US ski club forms (Berlin NH)
◈ 1895 Tchaikovsky's ballet
"Swan Lake" premieres, St Petersburg
1907 Gold dental inlays first described by William
Taggart, who invented them
1919 2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston MA,
drowning 21
◈ 1922 Arthur Griffith is
elected president of the Irish Free State after Eamon de Valera resigns in
opposition to the Anglo-Irish Treaty (De Valera will lead a military opposition
seeking a unified and independent Ireland)
1927 The Tennessee Supreme Court overturns (on a
technicality) John T Scopes' guilty verdict for teaching evolution — but the
law itself remains in force
1942 FDR asks commissioner to continue
baseball during WW II
1943 World's largest office building, the Pentagon
is completed
1947 The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The
Black Dahlia") is found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, California.
1951 Supreme Court rule "clear & present
danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech & can be a cause
for arrest
◈ 1969 Prime Minister of Northern
Ireland Terence O'Neill announces that an official inquiry will analyze the
'troubles' in Northern Ireland
◈ 1970 Republic of Biafra
disbands and joins Nigeria
◈ 1970 Muammar Gaddafi is
proclaimed premier of Libya
◈ 1971 Aswan Dam official opens
in Egypt
1973 4 Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal
court
1973 US President Richard Nixon suspends
all US offensive action in N Vietnam
1975 Space Mountain opens (Disneyland)
1976 Sara Jane Moore sentenced to life for
attempting to shoot US President Gerald Ford
1981 "Hill Street Blues" premieres on
NBC-TV
1988 Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes
racist remarks about black athletes
1997 Chicago Bull Dennis Rodman kicks
cameraman, Eugene Amosin the groin
◈ 1997 Diana, Princess of Wales,
calls for an international ban on landmines, angering ministers in the UK
2001 Wikipedia, a free Wiki content encyclopedia,
goes online.
2009 US Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency
landing into the Hudson River shortly after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in
New York City. All passengers and crew members survive.
2016 American Museum of Natural History in
Manhattan unveils newest exhibit replica skeleton of a Titanosaur dinosaur
(found 2010 Argentina), largest known dinosaur at 70 tons, 37m
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❆❆My Rambling Thoughts❆❆
Cloudy, rainy, snowy day. Good day to stay home.
Talked to my brother today. He has figured out a way to do international
calls over the internet suing the company site. Don’t understand it, but glad
it works so well. His wife is flying to DC on the 21st for the Women’s
March…cool. He is flying to NYC to get a knee replacement sometime soon. He has
been in pain for several years, and it is time.
I was always the ‘sick kid’ while he was always the athlete. At 65 he is
having is second surgery of his lifetime. About a decade ago he had an emergency
appendectomy in Mexico. He is a little unsettled about it but I’m sure it will
all be good. We’ll stay in touch until I leave for my adventure in Singapore.
Then we’ll do emails, since I am too cheap to get an international phone plan.
My brother is just as concerned as I am about our President-Elect. Over
the years when our candidate didn’t win it was…”can’t believe he won”, some
griping and complaining during the administration and getting more involved in
the next election. This time feels so much different. I have no faith that he
even knows what is going on outside the business world, and I’m not sure he
knows that much about the business world either. The fact that China reacted to
the Sec. of State hearings by one comment made about China shows that the rest
of the world is watching our every move. And so far the world is does not seem
to like what it is hearing. Bumpy ride for sure.
Tax people never called yesterday, so I called late this morning to see
if she got my emails and was able to open them all. She is off again today but
the guy says the emails do show up in her queue. He didn’t
know if she could open them, but said he would call her at home to see. Still
no answer. Oh well, Monday, a legal Federal holiday, is just around the corner.
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❆❆Brain Teasers❆❆
(answers at the end of post)
Choose Your Disaster
Trick brain teasers appear difficult at first, but they have a trick
that makes them really easy.
A group of four prisoners were held captive by the enemy and all of them
were to be shot, one each day through the week. As natural disasters were
common in this specific part of the world, the group of prisoners decided to
make up a plan of distracting the guards. Before each prisoner would be shot,
he would shout out a natural disaster, which would cause chaos and distract
everyone to give enough time for that prisoner to escape.
As three days passed the first three prisoners escaped by shouting out
their chosen natural disasters and running away, however the final prisoner
shouted out a disaster and was shot dead on the spot.
What was the natural disaster he shouted?
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❆❆Today’s Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers at the end of post)
What was the first movie Brad Pitt appeared in?
Thelma and Louise
Hunk
12 Years A Slave
Life of Brian
7.65% of those taking the quiz got it right
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❆❆Harper’s Index❆❆
3→ Factor by which the
average fee charged by migrant smugglers has increased since Jan. 2016
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❆❆New Trivia❆❆
A rat can give birth to nearly 2,000 descendants a year.
Pirates did not wear eye patches as a fashion accessory or to hide a
missing eye but to see properly below and above decks. When they moved from
brighter area to darkness, they just switched the eye patch to see better.
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❆❆Birthdays Today❆❆
@ → indicates age at death
@ 95→ Edward Teller,
Budapest Hungary, fathered H-bomb (Manhattan Project), (d. 2003)
@ 85→ Lloyd
Bridges, San Leandro California, actor (Sea Hunt, Roots, Airplane) (D1998)
@ 79→ Lewis
M Terman, Ind, psychologist (developed Stanford-Binet IQ test) (D1956)
@ 78→ Abdulaziz Ibn Saud,
Founder and first King of Saudi Arabia (1932-53), born in Riyadh, Emirate of
Nejd (d. 1953)
@ 69→ Aristotle
Onassis, Greece, rich shipping magnate (D1975)
@ 67→ Lord
Frederick Stanley, presenter of hockey's Stanley Cup (D1908)
66- Charo [Maria
Baeza], Spanish-American actress, comedienne and flamenco guitarist (Chico and
the Man, Love Boat)
@ 64→ Gene
Krupa, Benny Goodman's drummer (Sing Sing Sing) (D1973)
@ 61→ Johann
Oporinus [Herbster], Swiss book publisher (Koran) (D1568)
60- Mario
Van Peebles, Mexico, actor (Posse, South Bronx Heroes)
55- Creflo
Dollar, American televangelist
@ 52→ Gamal
Abdel Nasser, President of Egypt (D1970)
@ 39→ Martin Luther King Jr.,
American clergyman and leader of the Civil Rights Movement (Nobel 1964), born
in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 1968)
38-
Drew Brees-N.O. Saints QB
36- Pitbull
[Armando Christian Perez], American rapper, born in Miami, Florida
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❆❆Historical Obits Today❆❆
@83-1988 Sean
MacBride, Ireland, commander of Irish Republican Army
@83-1987 Ray
Bolger, actor/dancer (Wizard of Oz)
@79-1804 Dru Drury, English entomologist
@73-2016 Dan
Haggerty, American actor (Grizzly Adams), cancer
@57-1915 Fannie
Farmer, American culinary figure and author
@26-2008 Brad
Renfro, American actor (The Client), accidental OD
@22-1947 Elizabeth
Short, the Black Dahlia, murdered
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❆❆Brain Teasers Answers❆❆
Fire
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❆❆Trivia Hive
Answers❆❆
Hunk
Don't feel bad if you've never heard of "Hunk." Pitt had a
small part as an extra in this film, but it does count as his first credited
appearance on the big screen in 1987. Before that, he was also in the soap
opera "Another World." His breakout role probably came with
"Thelma & Louise" in 1991. Despite multiple nominations, he has
yet to win an Oscar for either Best Actor or Best Supporting Actor, though he did
technically earn one as one of the producers of 2014's Best Picture winner,
"12 Years A Slave." Source: IMDB
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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to
agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is
usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every
site contains mistakes and sadly once the information is out there, many sites
simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring
before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally
accurate.
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